rawhide/9beta+ way to set my timezone

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Wed Apr 9 08:32:59 UTC 2008


Andrew Farris wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> One more question:  Do you (or does anyone on the list) know if running
>> the raw XP installation in VMware handles the time correctly with these
>> settings?
> 
> It should.  If your host is using UTC for the hwclock, which vmware 
> should be duplicating as its hwclock.  Go into the vmware bios settings 
> and you should see the displayed time, if it matches what you expect it 
> to be you're all set.  It works fine for me on vmware fusion 1.1.

I have been running F6,7,8 now F9beta {f8 kernel} with a vmware-server 
winXP guest, as well as occasionally booting the real windows installation.

Machine time was always set to local time zone, never UTC. This used to 
justWork {tm}. I would like the non-tech {ie basic user} way to get it 
right - is there such a thing ?

DaveT.




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